More than five months ago the Raptors and Minnesota Timberwolves opened the season by playing each other in Toronto. So much has happened since the Raptors surprisingly handed new head coach Darko Rajakovic his first win.
Five of the nine Raptors who played at least 10 minutes in that game are no longer with the team, all-star Scottie Barnes and starting centre Jakob Poeltl have been injured for weeks now and Toronto has only won 22 of the next 75 games, while Minnesota has the best record in the Western Conference following Wednesday’s 133-85 obliteration in Minneapolis, the most decisive defeat in franchise history.The Raptors came in as a 17.5-point underdog and that ended up being pretty generous, as the team got completely outclassed, making it 15 straight losses, two away from tying the franchise recor